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At least the remnants of the Bucks are playing hard for Doc unlike my team.
I would agree with you, but course i have watched more than, like, 2 quarters of that series.
And now the coach is hurt. Looked like he his knee on a fan and seems serious.
Time to get Sochan in there!
I don't think any serious NBA fan looked at the Suns this year and thought, "Oh man, what a scary playoff team!" It was obvious from the start that this was an incredibly flawed roster, and the results bore themselves out. Granted, the Timberwolves are probably the worst team they could possibly face other than the Clippers or the Grizzlies, but they were never going to compete for the ship, especially without a top-tier coach who could maybe whip them into shape or find some kind of crazy schemes that could work consistently.
Yeah, I can see that. The problem is that the playoffs are not the same thing as the regular season. I think we've seen repeatedly, particularly in recent years, how little regular season performance matters other than in the broad aggregate as a measure of talent. The playoffs are where flawed teams and bad coaches are outright exposed, because the championship contenders will just find your weakness and spam it until you adjust, and then they will adjust to your adjustment, etc. etc. etc. The teams that can't pivot quickly or can't overcome their flaws are just going to get wrecked.
I always find it interesting when people do retrospective glossing over of poor playoff performance, too. You even see it on the internet immediately after games. "Oh, they only lost by 7, it wasn't that bad, a few plays could've turned the game!" ignoring the fact that the team was down 20+ points until the final quarter, or where the leading team just started playing straight zone coverage in the last 5 minutes to avoid tipping their hand, etc. etc. etc.
Here's the thing with Booker.
He can't protect the ball. Which means he can't handle pressure from a good single defender or multiple defenders at once.
He can do all the Kobe fadeaways he wants, but until he can protect the ball, he will be relegated to being a spot up shooter or a cutter against good teams.
People have tried to excuse this flaw by saying he "needs a good point guard" or "needs to be set up", but that's all a nice way of saying the above.
At least with Klay you got a microwave shooter who could literally just release the ball as soon as he got it. When he gets a pass, Booker still does this thing where he defaults to playing iso ball for 5 minutes before getting his shot off.
If you need someone else to give you the ball to be effective, then you are not That Guy. You are That Other Guy. Even bigs like Embiid and Jokic have good enough handles to push their way into the paint when they need to, or they can leverage their size to both receive and dish out passes where appropriate. Booker doesn't have that luxury, so he needs to be able to handle the ball without picking it up every time he faces pressure.
He also needs to be willing to force the issue and tell the coaches that they need to run something other than "everyone stand on the perimeter and pass the ball around" in order to get him free to shoot without having to handle the ball for long periods of time. In the age of Steph Fucking Curry I find it really difficult to forgive any so-called superstar who is unwilling to do the work off the ball to get shit done, especially if your obvious flaw is handling the ball.
We saw this during the latest series when the Suns were so desperate for anyone other than Booker to take the reins that they had Durant and Beal bringing the ball up regularly.
1) I don’t get this joke. Like, is it a hurricane thing? Galveston’s right next to Houston.
2) I dunno how this Pels team moves forward? Like. Zion’s good, but not great, and the rest of the supporting cast seems meh at best. But I haven’t watched this team myself, so
1) Charles Barkley is a big fan of Galveston it turns out.
Well, lets say he is equally a fan of Galveston and the Pelicans.
hehe... manta rad
I dont actually think the TWolves will be a walk for the Nuggets. Denver struggled much more with the Lakers than TWolves did with the Suns, and the Twolves have the best possible front line and wings to handle the two man game. I still expect Nuggets to win, but i bet itll take at least 6 to do it.
Such a luxury to not need to call timeout in that situation, so the Lakers have no plan about who/when to double in that pick and roll.
it's fine rob thompson gave them the game by putting in our 10 era reliever in a tie game. he got to 0-2 2 outs after putting runners on 2nd and 3rd no outs, and then threw a pitch the catcher called for a high fastball so wild that it bounced in front of the plate and two runs scored so they won anyway.
The Wolves are the biggest threat to Denver, yeah
And that’s without factoring in if Ant has a “World of Cardboard” moment
Postgame game 3:
It turns out reality is better than fiction here, because if you type in Galveston, Texas to google maps, you're immediately greeted with: